Dorset Collection (page 9)

Greetings from Weymouth, Dorset - Multiple view postcard. Date: circa 1930s

King George V - Our Sailor King
King George V (1865-1936) - Our Sailor King. The Royal Visit of the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert to the Kings Fleet at Weymouth, Dorset

The Grave of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935) at Moreton, Dorset. A British Army officer best known for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against

T E Lawrence Funeral
Funeral at St Nicholas Church, Moreton, Dorset of British archaeologist, soldier, intelligence officer and writer, Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), known as Lawrence of Arabia

Abbotsbury Church early 1900s

All Hallows Club PH, All Hallows on Sea, Dorset. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

James Frampton of Moreton (1769-1855), Commandant of the Dorset Yeomanry and anti-revolutionary. Date: 1795

Birthplace of Thomas Hardy, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset
Birthplace of the poet and novelist Thomas Hardy, a thatched cottage at Higher Bockhampton, near Dorchester, Dorset. 1912

John 3rd Duke Dorset
JOHN FREDERICK SACKVILLE, third duke of DORSET Date: 1745 - 1799

Couple on the beach at Bournemouth - early 1960s. They are fooling about - the sandy contents of his small plastic beach bucket have been deposited on is head! Date: 1961

The London Inn, Church Street, Lyme Regis, England
The London Inn, Church Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Named here Ye Olde London Inne. Date: 1920s

Tilly Whim Caves, Swanage, Dorset
Tilly Whim Caves, Swanage, Isle of Purbeck, near Poole, Dorset, England. Taken from the PS Victoria Date: 1930s

The Village, Upwey, Dorset
The Village, Upwey, Weymouth, near Dorchester, Dorset, England. Date: 1907

East Street - Market Place, Blandford Forum, Dorset
East Street/Market Place, Blandford Forum, near Blandford St Mary, Dorset, England. Date: 1920s

Motive Power Depot (MPD), Bournemouth, Dorset
Engine Works, Bournemouth, Dorset, England. London Brighton & South Coast Railway Date: 1950s

The River & Church, Wareham, Dorset
The River & Church, Wareham, near Poole, Dorset, England. Date: 1913

The Village, Wareham, Dorset
The Village, Wareham, near Stoborough, Dorset, England. Date: 1910s

Salisbury Street, Blandford Forum, Dorset
Salisbury Street, Blandford Forum, near Blandford St Mary, Dorset, England. Showing Parade with Trade Float - Celebrating the Tercentenary Date: 1920s

Butt Lane, Bere Regis, Dorset
Butt Lane, Bere Regis, Wareham, Dorset, England. Featured by Charles Dickens in the Pickwick papers Date: 1900s

Tyneham House
The deserted Tyneham House, in the village of Tyneham, on the Dorset coast. The village and surrounding area was commandeered by the War Office in late 1943, to be used as firing ranges

Dorset County Asylum (Herrison Hospital), Charlton Down Date: 1904

St Katharines Childrens Home, Southbourne-on-Sea, Dorset
Staff and children stand outside the St Katharines Childrens Home, at Church Road, Southbourne (or Southborne) on Sea, near Christchurch, Dorset. The home was in 1920 by the Waifs and Strays Society

Protopteris punctata, fossil fern tree
A sandstone cast of a cyathacecus tree fern from Shaftesbury Dorset, presented by W. Batten

Dinosaur footprints at Swanage
Fossilised footprint of a dinosaur dating back to around 135 million years ago from a Purbeck Stone quarry near Swanage, Dorset, UK. Scientists believe that they may have belonged to the Iguanodon

Wessex / Wareham / Anglebury
Wessex scenery: Wareham, Dorset, model for Anglebury in Thomas Hardys short story The Withered Arm - distant view Date: 1906

Queen Elizabeth at Maumbury Rings, Dorchester, Dorset
Queen Elizabeth II signing the distinguished visitors book at Maumbury Rings in Dorchester, Dorset, a neolithic circular earthwork later adapted as a Roman amphitheatre

England / River Frome
A scene on the River Frome, with the riverside houses and the old bridge at Wareham, Dorset, England. Date: 1960s

Interior of cell block at Portland Prison, Dorset
Interior of a new wing at Portland, Dorset showing cell doors, iron stairways and corridors. Wire netting was placed between balconies to prevent inmates falling to the ground

Convicts being searched, Portland Prison, Dorset
Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area. This view shows prison officers searching convicts on their return from work

Quarries, Portland Prison, Dorset
Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area. This view shows small groups of men cutting stone by hand while prison

Moored boat and Christchurch Priory, Dorset
Moored boat with Christchurch Priory (at Christchurch, Dorset) visible in the background. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Union Workhouse, Beaminster, Dorset
The Beaminster Union workhouse was erected in around 1837 at Stoke Water, near Beaminster, Dorset. Designed by HJ Whitling and Edward Mundey

THE PURE DROP INN
The Pure Drop inn at Wareham, Dorset, England. This curiously named inn has no sentimental or traditional history other than having a pure brew made in-house

Chemist Shop / Bridport
Beach and Company dispensing chemists and druggists, established 1788, in Bridport, Dorset, England. Formerly the the Old George Inn where Charles II stayed in 1651

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